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Art across Time Volume One

Art across Time Volume One

Summary

From prehistory through the Fourteenth Century, volume one of Art across Time presents the most accessible survey of art history available. Unencumbered by global flashbacks and confusing concurrent narratives, Art across Time presents a manageable survey that emphasizes art in its cultural and social context.

Table of Contents

Preface

xv

Introduction Why Do We Study the History of Art?

xvii

The Artistic Impulse

xvii

The Values of Art

xvii

Art and Illusion

xix

Art and Identification

xxi

Architecture

xxii

Art Collecting

xxiii

The Methodologies of Art History

xxiv

The Language of Art

xxvii

Stylistic Terminology

xxxi

Precursors of the Renaissance

449

(32)

Thirteenth-Century Italy

449

(1)

Nicola Pisano

449

(1)

Cimabue

450

(1)

Fourteenth-Century Italy

450

(21)

Giotto

450

(2)

Dante: The Poet of Heaven and Hell

452

(2)

Tempera: Painstaking Preparation and Delicate Detail

454

(1)

Altarpieces

454

(1)

The Arena Chapel

455

(1)

Training in the Master's Workshop

455

(1)

Cennino Cennini: II Libro dell'arte (The Craftsman's Handbook)

455

(2)

Fresco: A Medium for Speed and Confidence

457

(1)

Virtues and Deadly Sins

457

(5)

Saint Francis of Assisi

462

(1)

Giotto's Saint Francis

462

(1)

Duccio's Maesta

463

(3)

The Kiss of Judas

466

(2)

Ambrogio Lorenzetti and the Effects of Good Government

468

(2)

The Black Death

470

(1)

The International Gothic Style

471

(10)

Simone Martini

472

(1)

Claus Sluter

473

(3)

The Limbourg Brothers

476

(5)

The Early Renaissance

481

(65)

Italy in the Fifteenth Century

481

(15)

Renaissance Humanism

481

(1)

Humanism

481

(2)

Leonardo Bruni and the Humanist Tomb

483

(1)

Soldiers of Fortune

484

(1)

The Competition for the Florence Baptistry Doors

484

(2)

Brunelleschi and Architecture

486

(1)

Vasari's Lives

486

(4)

Lines of Vision

490

(3)

Ghiberti's East Doors for the Baptistry

493

(2)

Pisanello's Medal of John Paleologus

495

(1)

Early Fifteenth-Century Painting

496

(8)

Masaccio

496

(4)

A Distant Haze

500

(1)

Interntional Style: Gentile da Fabriano

501

(3)

Early Fifteenth-Century Sculpture

504

(2)

Donatello's Early Years

504

(2)

Second-Generation Developments

506

(25)

Leon Battista Alberti

506

(4)

The Theme of David and Goliath

510

(1)

Castagno's Famous Men and Women

511

(1)

The Equestrian Portrait

512

(4)

State Portraits

516

(1)

Oil Painting

516

(1)

Monumentality vs. Spirituality in Fifteenth-Century Painting

516

(4)

Piero della Francesca's Legend of the True Cross

520

(3)

Andrea Mantegna's Illusionism

523

(3)

Mantegna and the Studiolo of Isabella d'Este

526

(1)

Isabella d'Este

527

(1)

Botticelli's Mythological Subject-Matter

527

(1)

The Platonic Academy

528

(1)

The Question of an Old-Age Style: Donatello and Botticelli

529

(2)

Fifteenth-Century Painting in Flanders

531

Campin's Merode Altarpiece

532

(1)

Jan van Eyck

533

(6)

The Arnolfini Wedding Portrait: Art Historical Methodology

539

(1)

Van der Weyden

540

(2)

Later Developments

542

Window on the World Perspective in the Far East

502

(44)

The High Renaissance in Italy

546

(41)

Architecture

547

(5)

The Ideal of the Circle and Centrally Planned Churches

547

(3)

Saint Peter's and the Central Plan

550

(1)

Julius II: Humanist Pope

550

(2)

Painting and Sculpture

552

(21)

Leonardo da Vinci

552

(3)

Sfumato

555

(1)

Michelangelo di Buonarroti Simoni

556

(11)

Raphael

567

(6)

Developments in Venice

573

(14)

The Bellini: A Family of Painters

573

(5)

The Dispute over Painting vs. Sculpture

578

(1)

Giorgione

579

(3)

Titian

582

(1)

Pietro Aretino and Color vs. Drawing

583

(4)

Mannerism and the Later Sixteenth Century in Italy

587

(19)

Mannerism

587

(11)

The Reformation

588

(1)

Mannerist Painting

588

(1)

John Ashbery on Parmigianino

588

(3)

The Counter-Reformation

591

(1)

Mannerist Sculpture

592

(1)

Vasari on Women Artists

593

(1)

Benvenuto Cellini: A Mannerist Lifestyle

594

(2)

Giulio Romano: The Palazzo del Te

596

(2)

Counter-Reformation Painting

598

(2)

Tintoretto

598

(1)

The Painter's Daughter

598

(1)

El Greco

599

(1)

Loyola and the Spiritual Exercises

599

(1)

Mystic Saints

600

(1)

Late Sixteenth-Century Architecture

600

(6)

Andrea Palladio

600

(1)

The Four Books of Architecture

601

(2)

Vignola and II Gesu

603

(3)

Sixteenth-Century Painting in Northern Europe

606

(19)

Desiderius Erasmus

606

(1)

Martin Luther

607

(1)

The Netherlands

607

(9)

Hieronymus Bosch

607

(2)

Alchemy

609

(4)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

613

(1)

W. H. Auden's Icarus

614

(2)

Germany

616

(9)

Albrecht Durer

616

(1)

The Development of Printmaking

617

(2)

The Myth of the Mad Artist

619

(1)

Matthias Grunewald

620

(1)

Lucas Cranach

621

(1)

Hans Holbein

622

(3)

The Baroque Style in Western Europe

625

(50)

Developments in Politics and Science

625

(2)

Baroque Style

627

(1)

Architecture

627

(11)

Italy

627

(6)

France

633

(1)

The French Academy (Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture)

634

(2)

England

636

(2)

Sculpture

638

(3)

Gianlorenzo Bernini

638

(3)

Italian Baroque Painting

641

(9)

Annibale Carracci

642

(1)

Bellori's Lives

643

(1)

Pietro da Cortona

643

(2)

Giovanni Battista Gaulli

645

(1)

Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio

645

(5)

Artemisia Gentileschi

650

(1)

Women as Artists: From Antiquality to the Seventeenth Century

650

(1)

Baroque Painting in Northern Europe

650

(18)

Peter Paul Rubens

651

(2)

Anthony van Dyck

653

(1)

Rembrandt van Rijn

653

(1)

The Dutch East India Company: Seventeenth-Century Capitalism

653

(10)

Etching

663

(1)

Frans Hals

664

(1)

Judith Leyster

664

(1)

Johannes Vermeer

665

(1)

Jacob van Ruisdael

666

(1)

Harmen Steenwyck

667

(1)

Spanish Baroque Painting

668

(4)

Diego Velazquez

668

(4)

French Baroque Painting

672

Nicoals Poussin

672

(1)

Poussin's Theory of Artistic Modes

672

Window on the World Mughal Art and the Baroque

656

(19)

Rococo and the Eighteenth Century

675

(24)

Salons and Salonnieres

675

(1)

Political and Cultural Background

676

(2)

Art Theory and the Beginnings of Art History

677

(1)

The Age of Enlightenment

678

(1)

Scientific Experiments in the Enlightenment

678

(1)

Rococo Painting

679

(9)

Antoine Watteau

679

(2)

Francois Boucher

681

(1)

Jean-Honore Fragonard

682

(1)

Royal Portraiture

683

(1)

Pastel

684

(1)

Prelude to the French Revolution

685

(1)

Thomas Gainsborough

686

(1)

William Hogarth

686

(2)

Rococo Architecture

688

(3)

Balthasar Neumann

689

(1)

Matthaus Daniel Poppelmann

690

(1)

Dominikus Zimmerman

690

(1)

Architectural Revivals

691

(3)

Palladian Style: Lord Burlington and Robert Adam

691

(2)

Gothic Revival: Horace Walpole

693

(1)

European Painting

694

(2)

Bourgeois Relaism: Jean-Baptiste Chardin

694

(1)

Neoclassicism: Angelica Kauffmann

695

(1)

American Painting

696

(3)

John Singleton Copley

696

(1)

Benjamin West

697

(2)

Neoclassicism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

699

(17)

The Neoclassical Style in France

699

(11)

Chronology of the French Revolution and the Reign of Napoleon

699

(1)

Satyrs and Bacchantes

700

(1)

Art in the Service of the State: Jacques-Louis David

701

(2)

Napoleon as Patron

703

(3)

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

706

(3)

Oedipus

709

(1)

Developments in America

710

(6)

Chronology of the American Campaign for Independence

710

(1)

The Architecture of Thomas Jefferson

710

(1)

John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence

711

(3)

Horatio Greenough's George Washington

714

(2)

Romanticism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

716

(23)

The Romantic Movement

716

(1)

Rousseau and the Return to Nature

716

(1)

Chronology of Events in France

716

(1)

Romanticism in Music and Poetry

717

(1)

Architecture

717

(2)

Suculpture

719

(1)

Figural Painting

720

(11)

William Blake

720

(1)

Watercolor

720

(1)

Theodore Gericault

721

(1)

The Salon

722

(1)

Eugene Delacroix

723

(1)

Victor Hugo

724

(3)

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes

727

(1)

Aquatient

727

(3)

The Esthetic of the Sublime

730

(1)

Landscape Painting

731

(8)

Germany: Caspar David Friedrich

731

(1)

German Sturm und Drang

731

(1)

England: John Constable and Joseph Mallord William Turner

732

(2)

America

734

(1)

American Romantic Writers

735

(2)

Artists Quote Art: Horace Pippin

737

(2)

Nineteenth-Century Realism

739

(23)

Cultural and Political Context

739

(2)

The Communist Manifesto

739

(2)

French Realism

741

(6)

Jean-Francois Millet

741

(1)

Rosa Bonheur

741

(1)

Gustave Courbet

741

(1)

Realism in Literature

741

(3)

Honore Daumier

744

(1)

Lithography

744

(2)

Gargantua

746

(1)

Photography

747

(3)

Photography

747

(1)

France: Nadar

748

(1)

England: Julia Margaret Cameron

749

(1)

America: Mathew Brady

750

(1)

English Realism: The Pre-Raphaelites

750

(3)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

751

(1)

John Everett Millais

752

(1)

American Realism

753

(1)

Thomas Eakins

753

(1)

Henry Ossawa Tanner

754

(1)

French Realism in the 1860s

754

(2)

Eduard Manet's Dejeuner sur l'Herbe

754

(1)

Manet's Olympia

754

(2)

Courbet's Woman with a Parrot

756

(1)

Architecture and Sculpture

756

(6)

Joseph Paxton: The Crystal Palace

757

(1)

Bridges: The Roeblings

758

(1)

The Statue of Liberty

759

(1)

The Eiffel Tower

760

(1)

Origins of the Skyscraper: Louis Sullivan

760

(2)

Nineteenth-Century Impressionism

762

(30)

Urban Renewal during the Second Empire

762

(2)

Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann

762

(1)

Jean-Louis-Charles Garnier

762

(2)

Painting

764

(19)

Edouard Manet

764

(10)

Edgar Degas

774

(3)

Mary Cassatt

777

(1)

Berthe Morisot

778

(1)

Claude Monet

779

(1)

Auguste Renoir

780

(3)

Camille Pissarro

783

(1)

Sculpture

783

(3)

Edgar Degas

783

(1)

Auguste Rodin

783

(1)

Artists Quote Art: Steichen

784

(1)

Artists Quote Art: Beauford Delaney

785

(1)

American Painting at the Turn of the Century

786

(3)

Winslow Homer

786

(1)

John Singer Sargent

786

(1)

Maurice Prendergast

786

(3)

``Art for Art's Sake''

789

Window on the World Japanese Woodblock Prints

766

(26)

Music and Art

770

(22)

Post-Impressionism and the Late Nineteenth Century

792

(26)

Post-Impressionist Painting

792

(16)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

792

(1)

Paul Cezanne

793

(2)

An Apple a Day...

795

(1)

Georges Seurat

796

(1)

Vincent van Gogh

797

(2)

``Dear Theo''----The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

799

(4)

Paul Gauguin

803

(1)

Artists Quote Art: Thompson, Gauguin, and Cranach

804

(4)

Symbolism

808

(3)

Gustave Moreau

808

(1)

The Symbolist Movement

809

(1)

Edvard Munch

810

(1)

Fin-de-Siecle Developments

811

Aestheticism

811

(1)

Art Nouveau

812

(1)

The Vienna Secession

813

(2)

Henri Rousseau

815

(2)

The Mechanisms of Dreaming

817

Window on the World Gauguin and Oceania

806

(12)

Turn of the Century: Early Picasso, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Matisse